Curtiss P-40B Tomahawk (signed)The P 40 gained its greatest fame as the plane of the famed Flying Tigers. In the late 1930's Japanese forces were inflicting heavy loses on the Chinese. President Roosevelt promised the Chinese president that the United States would help, even though the US was not at war. The United States provided obsolete P 40B airplanes, but China didn't have the pilots to fly them. The U. S. Army, Navy and Marines asked for volunteers. They were released from